Example sentences of "of [art] few [noun pl] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 2 | We charge the highest rate in the country for issuing fire certificates which is one of the few things which we 're actually allowed to charge , and we charge more than virtually any other authority in this country . |
| 3 | One of the few complaints which I would make is that the actor looks much too spruce for someone who is living rough in every sense of the word — forever dossing down in stations and trains and consuming endless quantities of the most vicious liquors . |
| 4 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 5 | Furthermore , this is one of the few studies which gives an account of the feelings after the task was completed . |
| 6 | As he left the house Huy glanced around the square , and along the streets that led from it ; but there was no movement at any of the few windows which looked on to the street , and the handful of people about were all familiar to him . |
| 7 | The ancient Forest of Naddle , with deciduous trees , is one of the few areas which remain to show the natural tree growth of the region . |
| 8 | Mr Johnston , who stood on a ‘ Save Our Townlands ’ ticket in the council elections of 1977 , said : ‘ It is one of the few powers which councils have left that they can enforce the format for local addresses . |
| 9 | It was one of the few cottages which housed a wireless . |
| 10 | It is one of the few diseases which medicine could attack before the Second World War , by passive immunization . |
| 11 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 12 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 13 | Information is one of the few products which the West can sell to the Far East . |
| 14 | The hotel , catering and tourist industry is the second largest employer in the United Kingdom , a major contributor to the balance of payments , and one of the few industries which is showing , and will continue to show , real growth . |
| 15 | But the first real headhunting boom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s , when the recession really began to bite ; executive search may be seen as one of the few industries which grew in this period . |
| 16 | According to Fidelity — one of the few companies which is to date offering these funds — the yield on its Tax Free Income Plan ( a unit trust comprising 51 per cent equities and 49 per cent bonds ) will fall from about 6 per cent now to 5.75 per cent after 5 April . |
| 17 | Holland is one of the few countries which practices a hotel grading system ranging from 1 to 5 stars . |
| 18 | It is one of the few sites which illustrate the many phases of castle building in Britain . |
| 19 | But as Thierry Bernard , the director of ERAI ( Enterprise Rhone-Alpes International ) points out : ‘ This is one of the few regions which does not offer financial incentives . |
| 20 | Members of the British Diabetic Association say Darlington 's Memorial is one of the few hospitals which does not have a diabetic liaison nurse . |
| 21 | Wood is scarce in the Sinai desert , but the acacia is one of the few trees which grow there . |
| 22 | It is delivered in the form of a few coins which bear the likeness of the last president , a pleasant utopian who retired of his own free will . |